venerdì 1 agosto 2014

Pierre Robert - En Grands Motets

Chosen
by Louis XIV in 1663 to conduct the music of his Chapel, Pierre Robert
spent the next twenty years, in alternation with Henry Du Mont,
composing the works that accompanied the daily services of the court of
France. The creator with Du Mont and Lully, of the grands motets the
emblematic genre of a 'French style' admired by all Europe, Robert was
one of the last heirs to the great French polyphonic tradition which he
brought to a high degree of contrapuntal complexity and rhetorical
refinement, as can be seen in his 'Motets pour la chapelle du Roy'
published in 1684. Olivier Schneebeli is Director of Les Pages and les
Chantres de la Chapelle, the choir of the Centre de Musique Baroque de
Versailles. Prior to joining the Centre in 1991, he and William Christie
founded the choir of Les Arts Florissants for the modern debut of
Lully's Atys.